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Mash Me Up

Mash Me Up . Using Wikipedia to Smarten up Smart Search Nicholas Wyant July 30, 2009. Mash Up Wikipedia. Academic Library websites can be boring and difficult to use Federated Searching has improved things Mash ups will rock our world. Audience. Students .

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Mash Me Up

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  1. Mash Me Up Using Wikipedia to Smarten up Smart Search Nicholas Wyant July 30, 2009

  2. Mash Up Wikipedia • Academic Library websites can be boring and difficult to use • Federated Searching has improved things • Mash ups will rock our world

  3. Audience

  4. Students • Students are overwhelmed with the amount of information provided to them • Providing more information to enable better research

  5. If this is so great….. • Why aren’t we already doing it?

  6. OpenAPI • Not all APIs are available • Amazon, Google Maps, Flickr, etc…all want you to have their API • Wikipedia does not share that sentiment

  7. How do we make this dream a reality? • Wikipedia’s API • Javascript to duplicate the search • Primo is already geared to do federated searching

  8. So far • There is a reverse engineered API of wikipedia • Unfortunately it is not reliable • Many universities already employ similar tactics

  9. What’s Next • Testing the implementation of Javascript with Smart Search on an existing Open API • Flickr?

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